Data sheet holder



June 4, 1935. G. D. cox 2,003,854

DATA SHEET HOLDER Filed April 19, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Georye 11 Cox,

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Patented June 4, 1935 UNITED STATES DATA SHEET HOLDER George D. Cox, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to Williams and Marcus Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation'of Pennsylvania Application April 19, 1933, Serial No. 666,804

Claims.

This invention relates to holders for data sheets or cards; and it has reference more specifically to data sheet or card holders intended for accommodation, like letter folders, in draw- 5 ers of office filing cabinets.

In the management of various businesses it is essential or desirable that separate data sheets or cards be kept for recording difierent transactions relating to each individual subject. An instance which may be cited as typical of the above is in connection with life insurance oilice management where several data sheets or cards are kept for each individual policy on which sheets or cards are separately recorded the name and residence of the insured, doctor's reports, premium payments, loans, etc. Heretofore, such data sheets or cards were kept in separate cabinets which were located in different office departments, so that the assembling of the complete 20 complement of the data sheets or cards for ascertainment of full information with regard to any particular subject, or for the purposes of photographing or photostating when copies were required, entailed expenditure of considerable 25 time on the part of clerks in charge of such files. Also under this system, the data sheets or cards soon become soiled through frequent individual handling, and were moreover likely to be misplaced or lost.

In the main, my invention is directed toward overcoming the above recited drawbacks, which desideratum I attain through provision of a thin compact flat transparent holder which lends itself to very economic manufacture; which af- 35 fords a multiplicity of individually-accessible pockets for the several data sheets or cards employed for a particular subject; which is capable of being readily stacked or piled with others or of being interposed upright between others in a drawer of a filing cabinet; and which permits photographing or photostating of the data sheets or cards without necessitating their removal.

Other objects and attendant advantages will be manifest from the detailed description following of the attached drawings, wherein Fig. I is a perspective view of a data sheet or card holder conveniently embodying my invention in one form.

Fig. II is a vertical sectional view of the holder drawn to a larger scale and taken as indicated by the arrows 11-11 in Fig. I.

Fig. III is a fragmentary vertical detail sectional view taken as indicated by the arrows III-III in F18. I.

Fig. IV is a fragmentary horizontal detail section taken as indicated by the arrows IV-IV in Fig. I.

Figs. V and VI are fragmentary detail sectional views corresponding to Fig. II and showing two different modifications of my invention.

Referring first to the embodiment of my invention delineated in Figs. I-IV of these drawings, the data sheet or card-holder there shown is of rectangular configuration and formed with transparent side walls l0 and II, which may be of any clear, pliant, flexible and tough tearresistive sheeti material like celluloid or cellulose acetate, the latter. being preferred by virtue of its greater safety against fire and explosion. In making up the holder, I double an elongated blank sheet of the transparent material upon itself with creation of a rounded fold along the bottom end of the holder as indicated at l2 in Figs. I and II, the line of fold being so ordered as to predetermine slight projection of one end edge of the sheet above the other end edge.- To close the folder at the top, I bend down the extended portion of the longer side of the sheet which constitutes the front wall In of the holder as at [3 in Figs. I and II into marginally lapping relation with the free edge of the shorter side which constitutes the back wall of the holder, and secure the fold M to said back wall with a. suitable cementing medium which will render the juncture permanent as by localized fusion over the contacting areas. When the holder is to be stored upright with others, for example, in the drawer of a filing cabinet, in order to render its removal easy, I turn up the edge of the marginally lapping portion I 4 at a slight angle as at l5 to provide a projection convenient of engagement by the finger-nails incident to withdrawing the holder from such drawer. As an alternative, I may form the edge of the lapping margin Ma with a bead such as shown at lie; in Fig. V instead of turning up the edge as described in connection with Figs. I and 11. When the folder is to be piled or stacked with others, or in instances where finger-nail projections are not desired, the downfolded marginal portion 14 may be made flat throughout as shown at Hb in Fig. VI.

Either before or after folding of the transparent sheet in forming the jacket of the folder, I interpose between the side walls It], II at spaced intervals vertically of the folder, a number of narrow horizontal partitioning strips IS (in this instance two) which may be of transparent material like said walls, or of an opaque material having the-same characteristics as regards flexibility, toughness and resistivity to tearing, These partitioning strips I6 I likewise secure to the side walls III, II by aid of a cementing medium such as hereinbefore referred to in connection with the top edge fold H. Along the vertical center of the holder, I unite the sides III, I l at intervals by spot denting them as at I! in Figs. I, III and IV, with the aid of an appropriate tool for the purpose, there being in this instance two indentations I! for each horizontal subdivision of the holder, one indentation being made from one side of the holder, and the other from the opposite side. However, these indentations I! may, if desired or found convenient, all be made from-one side of the folder, and in either case collectively form a central barrier or partitioning means, whereby, in conjunction with the horizontal partitioning strips Hi, the holder is subdivided into two vertical rows of pockets l8 for reception of individual data sheets or cards such as conventionally indicated at H. The pockets l8 of the respective vertical rows, it will be observed, are accessible from the opposite side edges of the holder; and said edges are formed with finger notches as at 20 which will permit grasping of the data sheets or cards is incident to removing the same.

From this detailed description it will be seen that my improved data sheet or card holder has all the attributes and affords all the advantages hereinbefore pointed out in the first part of the specification. The holders herein shown for convenience of illustration are in practice made ten by ten inches and subdivided into six pockets adapted to accommodate data sheets or cards approximately three by five inches. I do not however wish to be considered as limited either 'to these proportions or to the number of pockets shown since these considerations are subject to extensive variation in practice.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a flat fiexible rectangular holder of the character described for use in file cabinet drawers, having side walls formed by a folded sheet of transparent tearresistive material with one end of the sheet overlapped upon and united to the other atthe back of the folder to close the latter at the top and the edge of said fold-down portion bent outwardly to form a fingernail grasp for convenience of removing the holder from the file cabinet drawer, and partitioning means setting apart in the interval between the side walls a multiplicity of separate pockets for as many different data sheets or cards, said pockets being accessible for insertion and removal of the data sheets or cards from one side edge of the holder.

2. A data sheet or letter holder for filing cabinets in the form of a fiat rectangular envelope open at its side edges and comprising a folded quadrangular sheet of transparent tear resistant material like cellulose acetate with one end of the sheet lap jointed over the other along the top edge of the holder and formed with a longitudinal head for the purposes of a finger nail grasp.

3. A data sheet or letter holder for filing cablnets, having the form of a fiat rectangular envelope comprising a quadrangular sheet of stiff, transparent, tear-resistant material like cellulose acetate folded upon itself with the side edges of the folds coincident and the end edges Joined to each other; and coincident internesting spot indentations formed from the opposite faces of the holder and connecting said faces at intervals to set apart pockets individually accessible for insertion or removal of the letters or data sheets through the open side edges of said holder.

4. A data sheet or letter holder for filing cabinets, having the form of a fiat rectangular envelope comprising a quadrangular sheet of stiff, transparent, tear-resistant material like cellulose acetate, said sheet being folded upon itself with the side edges of the folds coincident and the end edges joined to each other; and spot indentations connecting the opposite faces of the holder at intervals and setting apart pockets individually accessible for insertion or removal of the letters or data sheets through the open side edges of the holder, said spot indentations being indented alternately from opposite faces of the holder.

5. A data sheet or letter holder for filing cabinets, having the form of a flat rectangular envelope comprising a quadrangular sheet of stiff transparent tear-resistant material like cellulose acetate folded upon itself with the side edges of the folds coincident, and with the end edges of the sheet joined to each other; a number of horizontal vertically-spaced partitioning strips interposed between the side faces of the holder; and spot indentations connecting the opposite faces of the holder vertically adjacent the horizontal partitioning strips aforesaid to form, jointly with said partitioning strips, two rows of pockets individually accessible from the open side edges of the holder.

GEORGE D. COX. 

